Fumihiko Maki

1928–2024 · Japanese · 14 buildings on the wall

Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024) was a Japanese architect whose work often explored new materials and brought together the cultures of East and West. A student of Kenzō Tange at the University of Tokyo and a graduate of Harvard, he taught in the United States and returned to Japan in 1960 to help found the Metabolist group. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1993.

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He worked on Hillside Terrace in Tokyo (1992) for almost a quarter of a century from 1967, adding to it piece by piece along one street. Spiral in Tokyo (1985) has a façade of aluminium and glass that reflects the jumbled streets around it. The Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (1990) and Makuhari Messe near Tokyo (1989) are among his large public buildings in Japan. Abroad, he designed 4 World Trade Center in New York (2013) on the rebuilt site, and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2014), made to use natural light and clad in sandblasted white granite that plays sun against deep shadow. Fumihiko Maki's projects are studied for their careful detail and for how a building can join a city over time.

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